Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Noble Beta Released!

2024-04-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
rror notifications. > this problem arise before. although in early stage, eg. 18.04, 20.04, > 22.04 路‍♂️ > > On April 12, 2024 4:14:01 AM GMT+07:00, Walter Lapchynski > wrote: > >> We are happy to announce the Beta release for Lubuntu Noble (what >> will >> be

[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Noble Beta Released!

2024-04-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
We are happy to announce the Beta release for Lubuntu Noble (what will become 24.04 LTS)! = What makes this cycle unique? = Lubuntu is a lightweight flavor of Ubuntu, based on LXQt and built for you. As an official flavor, we benefit from Canonical’s infrastructure and assistance, in addition to

[lubuntu-users] now with more non-English support!

2020-12-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Thanks to the valiant efforts of the Lubuntu Globalization Team, as well as the work of several other folks to get all the infrastructure set up, I'm pleased to announce that Lubuntu now offers more support for users whose native language is not English. We now have IRC channels (which are

Re: [lubuntu-users] Bug with Keyboard & Mouse Settings

2020-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 06:36:08AM -0800, Patrick Jarrett wrote: > my laptop retains the setting of flipping the mouse buttons. I just tried to reproduce this and could not. I would check whether or not the state of the "left_handed" key in the "Mouse" stanza of the config file matches the

Re: [lubuntu-users] With console boot in place .. control which Desktop runs

2020-10-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 06:21:55AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Now I got around to setting up my normal preference of console boot, > and using `startx' whenever I want to go into graphical mode. Try using `startlxqt` instead. -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57

Re: [lubuntu-users] does latest 20.04.1 have the zfs option duing install?

2020-09-28 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:03:27PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I missed seeing the zfs option during install of lubuntu 20.04.1 No, you didn't miss it. It's not there. We don't use the Ubiquity installer that Ubuntu uses, but instead use Calamares. So far, Calamares has yet to offer ZFS support,

Re: [lubuntu-users] 18.04 LTS support length? (uninvol...@outlook.com)

2020-05-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On May 24, 2020 8:14:41 AM PDT, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > So, the "question" might be how radically different is the >debian based "lxde" from the possibly lubuntu engineered "lxqt desktop"??? Just as it was with the Lubuntu engineered LXDE desktop, totally different. Only more. @wxl |

Re: [lubuntu-users] Installing Lubuntu 20.04 through USB

2020-05-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:38:14PM +, nige7633 wrote: > it doesn't give me an option to erase the disk. It will only Allow me to > Partion the dive myself. The manual explains this. Long story short, you likely have a partition on that device mounted. Swaps are common, as they are

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 20.04

2020-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:24:30AM -0600, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 4/30/20 11:07 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:05:51AM -0600, Aere Greenway wrote: > > > On 4/30/20 10:57 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 20.04

2020-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:05:51AM -0600, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 4/30/20 10:57 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:21:53AM -0600, Aere Greenway wrote: > > > If I could customize the look-and-feel of the LXQT desktop more, I might > > > start u

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 20.04

2020-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:21:53AM -0600, Aere Greenway wrote: > If I could customize the look-and-feel of the LXQT desktop more, I might > start using that. What are you wanting to customize? -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A -- Lubuntu-users

[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 18.04.4 has been released!

2020-02-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
The subject says it all: Lubuntu 18.04.4 has been released! https://lubuntu.me/bionic-4-released/ Thanks to everyone that helped make it happen! -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: [lubuntu-users] SiS Graphics problems - lubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 32-bit

2020-02-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2020-02-10 21:16, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > 1. Poor video playback from YouTube videos You mean quality-wise? If so, yeah, not much to do about that. You might try downloading them and seeing if that doesn't help. See the youtube-dl package if you're not already familiar with it. > 2. "window

Re: [lubuntu-users] SiS Graphics problems - lubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 32-bit

2020-02-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2020-02-10 20:22, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > The advice to use vesa was useful and is currently working :) A weird one, though. If I hadn't been searching for other things related to my reply I wouldn't have even noticed that. I guess the default module has either poor support or poor support for

Re: [lubuntu-users] SiS Graphics problems - lubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 32-bit

2020-02-09 Thread Walter Lapchynski
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 21:09, Walter Lapchynski wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 03:33:41PM +, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > Thanks to your reply, I am much more familiar with cvt and xrandr. I used > them to create a higher resolution mode but when I tried to activate it > from the

[lubuntu-users] Testing needed for Bionic Beaver 18.04.4 due 6 February 2020

2020-02-03 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Bionic Beaver 18.04.4 images are now available for [testing][1] and we could use your help doing it. This should be a relatively minor change, mostly with better hardware support. Test them hard and fast, as the plan is to release them officially 6 February 2020 (i.e. in three days). This is the

Re: [lubuntu-users] Rebuild 19.10 iso enlarge usr

2020-01-31 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2020-01-30 11:50, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm attempting to create a zfs on root install (Virtualbox vm) with > lubuntu-19.10 Why are you trying to do this on the ISO and not just create an installation? Ubiquity (the installer used by the other flavors) supports ZFS, so you could install a base

Re: [lubuntu-users] SiS Graphics problems - lubuntu 18.04.3 LTS 32-bit

2020-01-29 Thread Walter Lapchynski
> When I boot from installation media, Lubuntu appears with a screen > resolution of 1280 x 1024 and a Refresh rate of 0.00. Other > resolutions (1024 x 768, 800 x 600, 640 x 480) are available. What kernel module is being used here versus on the installed system? The issue may lie in there.

Re: [lubuntu-users] Obstructive screen keyboard during greeter screen

2020-01-29 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2020-01-29 17:01, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: Focal running lubuntu in newly built vbox vm. Development release → development mailing list. lubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com. > screen keyboard takes over obliterating greeter screen. [This issue][1] describes the problem and the solution.

Re: [lubuntu-users] difficulties getting kernel 5.5.0 debs to build correctly

2020-01-28 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2020-01-28 22:31, Jordan Z wrote: > I decided to upgrade from 5.4.0.12 to 5.5.0 manually. Given the [highest supported version][1] is 5.3.0 and 5.4.0 is in development, this is outside of the scope of normal support, ultimately. I suspect, too, that given the reference to 5.4.0, you're

Re: [lubuntu-users] Gnash needed in newer Lubuntus

2020-01-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 05:36:35PM -0500, Eric Bradshaw wrote: > I need an open source (hence my current use of Gnash and future use of > Lightspark), Flash player for local SWF files, from Lubuntu 20.04 LTS on. The problem here is that both of those applications are dependent on GTK2, which is

Re: [lubuntu-users] "System problem detected"??

2020-01-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:28:03AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > are now two files ending in "upload" in "var/crash" . . . ?? I'd delete those, too. > Done with messing with it for today, I'll see if the "system report" window > opens when I log back in tomorrow morning . . . For this service

Re: [lubuntu-users] "System problem detected"??

2020-01-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:52:18AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > seems like the OP is also using > nvidia graphics, might relate there?? Given this is related to CUPS, it's doubtful it has anything to do with graphics. In case you're not aware, CUPS is a print server. > Now to find "sudo" and try

Re: [lubuntu-users] "System problem detected"??

2020-01-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 09:17:04AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > OK, I know nothing . .. nthhhiii . . . . Then I recommend not using development releases!!! XD > I tried to trash > the file, and it was greyed out in right-click, and I tried to drag it to > "trash" and that didn't

Re: [lubuntu-users] "System problem detected"??

2020-01-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On January 13, 2020 8:10:11 AM PST, Fritz Hudnut wrote: >PS: I ran "ubuntu-bug _usr_sbin_cups-browsed.0.crash" and it showed a >GUI >error window, "No such file or directory detected"?? That's like saying "file a bug report with this file IN THE PRESENT WORKING DIRECTORY." If $PWD isn't

Re: [lubuntu-users] "System problem detected"??

2020-01-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On January 13, 2020 7:55:59 AM PST, Fritz Hudnut wrote: >OK, looked in var/crash and there was a file there, >"_usr_sbin_cups-browsed.0.crash" . . . not exactly sure what "run >ubuntu-bug" against it means . . . `ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_usr_sbin_cups-browsed.0.crash` FWIW I've seen problems

Re: [lubuntu-users] Gnash needed in newer Lubuntus

2020-01-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:34:41PM -0500, Eric Bradshaw wrote: > Lightspark [https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark.github.com] seems to be > the most updated, open-source, SWF player (and web browser plug-in), though > it appears I'll need to compile it for LXQt. Oh, I forgot to answer this

Re: [lubuntu-users] Gnash needed in newer Lubuntus

2020-01-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:34:41PM -0500, Eric Bradshaw wrote: > need an *open source,* stand-alone, SWF player I think your problem here is not the license, but the fact that SWFs are Flash and [Adobe drops support for Flash at the end of this year][1]. In anticipation of this, Facebook, Google,

[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) reaches End of Life on January 2 2020

2020-01-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
As you may have noticed from the [Ubuntu announcement][1], 19.04 (Disco Dingo) will be unsupported starting 23 January 2020 and that naturally applies to Lubuntu, as well. That said, we have composed a [blog post][2] announcing as such as well as outlining the current support status for all

Re: [lubuntu-users] "System problem detected"??

2020-01-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:43:09AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > I saw something about "Compton compositer" in that same basic > area, and that was "unchecked" . . . ?? I thought that Compton is the more > or less default compositer these days? Yep, but not enabled by default. > I did a Lu

Re: [lubuntu-users] Wish list for Lu 20.04 in 2020

2020-01-09 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2020-01-09 17:40, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > Possibly there is a way to "disable" these nagging inquiries . . . I didn't think there was, but I guess I had to "RTFM" as [the answer is indeed in our manual][1]: uncheck the "Ask confirmation to leave session" box in LXQt Session settings. [1]:

Re: [lubuntu-users] First response to Lu 20.04 alpha LTS live session . . . .

2019-11-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 05:04:43PM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > considering installing […] but if you don't think it's ready for prime time In general, I would not recommend using development versions for production use. If you're really adept, patient, and well-aware of the changes that are

Re: [lubuntu-users] First response to Lu 20.04 alpha LTS live session . . . .

2019-11-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On November 1, 2019 2:01:22 PM PDT, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > it seems essentially the same as Eoan Early in the development cycle, the new image is often the same as the old one. > the desktop image shows a "19 Eoan Ermine" image Usually things like art and version strings are the last things

[lubuntu-users] [steve.langa...@ubuntu.com: Community process for 32-bit compatibility]

2019-09-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I'm sending this along as I know Lubuntu was the last flavor to drop support for 32-bit images. As I'm sure you know, the Ubuntu repos are going to drop support for 32-bit applications, with some exceptions. This involves creating a list of those exceptions, so it might be a good place to add

Re: [lubuntu-users] new software needs testing

2019-08-20 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:57:46AM +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 at 21:27, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > For 19.10, there's two pieces of software that we're considering getting > > in: > > 1. sddm-config-editor, a GUI for the display manager configu

[lubuntu-users] new software needs testing

2019-08-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
For 19.10, there's two pieces of software that we're considering getting in: 1. sddm-config-editor, a GUI for the display manager configuration 2. a more updated, featureful fork of our compositor, compton We've put together some versions to test and could really use your help and as soon as

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu release list

2019-08-16 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:07:34AM +0300, Benjamin Brandall wrote: > Noticed that the list of Lubuntu releases on > https://docs.lubuntu.net/releases seems out of date with the release blog > posts (nothing listed on /releases since v17.10). That's because that's not our website. It has no

Re: [lubuntu-users] usb mobile broadband modem

2019-08-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 07:20:54PM +0300, Dimitris Koutsouris wrote: > Following usb-modeswitch people advice i should contact Lubuntu Maintainers > on this matter. The kernel is a core part of Ubuntu. All the flavors share it. That said, this is really not a Lubuntu specific problem, but a

[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 18.04.3 Released!

2019-08-08 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Thanks to all the hard work from our contributors, we are pleased to announce that Lubuntu 18.04.3 LTS has been released! Lubuntu 18.04.3 is a set of images produced for convenience so that a fresh install of the latest Lubuntu LTS does not require as many updates after install. One notable

Re: [lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . the new mouse sweeps clean?

2019-06-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 07:36:55PM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > Yes, this system was upgraded via console to 19.10 Then don't be too surprised. When you're working on the development version, it's expected there will be some amount of breakage, no matter how much folks try to avoid it. > . . .

Re: [lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . the new mouse sweeps clean?

2019-06-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 07:35:43PM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > but, if I just reboot the > computer w/o alt/option key, then an OSX command line looking "dmesg" of a > few lines of "bash" script shows up mentioning "APFS" several times This is the part that worries me. It sounds like you're not

Re: [lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . the new mouse sweeps clean?

2019-06-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 01:15:57PM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > _usr_sbin_update-apt-xapian-index.0.crash I know on 19.10, this has been [misbehaving][1], but that's not the version you're on, is it? [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931133 -- @wxl | polka.bike C563

Re: [lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . the new mouse sweeps clean?

2019-06-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 09:48:43AM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > "Death is inevitable, suffering is not . . ." but, um, SSD is less than a > year old, shouldn't quite be "dying" just yet . . . one would "hope." You would expect… but I've had failures in less than a year. > there is an "APFS"

Re: [lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . the new mouse sweeps clean?

2019-06-29 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 04:00:55PM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 3:29 PM Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:54:25AM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > Um, so you're saying that the problem is solved? Strangest story ever. > R

Re: [lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . the new mouse sweeps clean?

2019-06-29 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:54:25AM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > "the new > mouse sweeps clean" . . . ??? Um, so you're saying that the problem is solved? Strangest story ever. > I do believe that the "system error" window in both Ubuntu systems > pre-dates the new mouse chapter Did you ever

[lubuntu-users] Donate to Lubuntu

2019-06-27 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Today we are excited to announce, after a long, long time coming, that you can [donate to Lubuntu][1] and that includes buying merchandise!! [As we announced on the blog][2], we've got Patreon, Liberapay, PayPal, and Teespring all set up. Funds will go towards infrastructure costs, conferences,

Re: [lubuntu-users] Error: "system program problem" . . . report now?

2019-06-27 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-06-27 17:42, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > when logging in I get an error > saying "system program problem" . . . "report now" or "cancel" . . Anything in /var/crash? Did you try reporting? > The dsmeg?? window Why don't you pastebin up /var/log/syslog and dmesg? > now I can't scroll >

[lubuntu-users] goodbye forever, i386

2019-06-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Today the Ubuntu Engineering team announced that they will [no longer support i386][1] either for images or for packages in the repositories starting with the 19.10 release. They are, in fact, working on disabling it as we speak. Since [Lubuntu already dropped i386 images][2], this shouldn't come

Re: [lubuntu-users] The ending of various technological "waves"

2019-06-03 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-06-03 15:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > At best a teenager remembers to have > heard one of the most sold Beatles songs, if a grandpa ever put a > best of the Beatles record on. Not to mess with you Ralf, but my daughter, a teenager, absolutely loves the Beatles and I'm primarily the person

Re: [lubuntu-users] JUST BE NICE (was: a bunch of other topics)

2019-05-21 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-05-21 09:37, Liam Proven wrote: > I do not spend my time attempting to communicate by placing alphabet > blocks in stacks that spell out my sentences, because I am not 2 years > old. This conversation is really degrading quickly. I'm going to ask kindly that we all just quit. Some people

[lubuntu-users] Discourse/Forum

2019-05-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Just a heads up that we now have a forum/Discourse in addition to the mailing lists: https://discourse.lubuntu.me/ It would be nice if we could somehow sync them but for the meanwhile, they are separate communication methodologies. For those of you that prefer mailing lists, Discourse does have a

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 09:10:58AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > Do you think a forum environment might engender more participation, > collaboration, passion, interest, etc? I prefer mailing lists, but if I'm excited about something, I participate in whatever communication option it has available. Case

[lubuntu-users] Firefox Add-ons disabled… now fixed

2019-05-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
If your Firefox Add-ons suddenly got disabled, don't freak out. Mozilla has rolled out a fix already: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A -- Lubuntu-users mailing list

Re: [lubuntu-users] xmr-stak (was: contributions)

2019-05-03 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 12:00:41PM +0700, Johanes Hutapea wrote: > may I ask something out of this topic? about xmr-stak? In general, if you want to make a new topic, I'd suggest starting a new message, but ok. I will say, though, that xmr-stak is not in the Ubuntu repositories and, as such, you

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-03 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:48:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > That xcb multi-threaded client crab is no issue at all for my Ubuntu > 16.04 install, but a PITA for my Arch Linux install. Since I never used > pcmanfm, it's Claws that suffers from this issue on my Arch install. Are there any

Re: [lubuntu-users] contributions (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-05-02 20:46, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > n Thu, 02 May 2019 13:04:08 -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >>On 2019-05-02 20:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> I've got deep respect regarding your effort >> it would be certainly easier if we had >>more help… so if you're loo

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

2019-05-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-05-02 20:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I've got deep respect regarding your effort, especially since it seems > to be a trivial issue. IMO it isn't that trivial. In the end, all bugs are relevant. Of course, some are higher priority than others. This one's probably not the biggest one we have

Re: [lubuntu-users] trash behavior (was: mouse scroll wheel behavior in pcmanfm-qt)

2019-05-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-05-02 03:21, Mark F wrote: > I thought the LX crew were recreating LXDE using Qt. Nope. It has a similar core, but it's a bit of a "re-thinking" than anything. > BTW: In a previous message I mentioned the "empty trashcan" progress > window had a "/ 4" (after the number of files being

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

2019-05-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-26 16:01, Mark F wrote: > I know the installer and Xubuntu aren't your (Walter's) department. > I'm just wondering if that would be another way to look at it? Lubuntu > uses 4.5gb. But, required 8gb to pass the installer's requirement. How the installer is configured for Lubuntu is

Re: [lubuntu-users] mouse scroll wheel behavior in pcmanfm-qt (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-05-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:50:14PM -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > On 2019-04-28 21:27, Mark F wrote: > > When I roll my wheel, I adjust my > > enthusiasm/expectation by how far I have to go (within the size of the > > viewport). I don't really think about it as &q

Re: [lubuntu-users] mouse scroll wheel behavior in pcmanfm-qt (was: 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement)

2019-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-28 21:27, Mark F wrote: > When I roll my wheel, I adjust my > enthusiasm/expectation by how far I have to go (within the size of the > viewport). I don't really think about it as "I'm looking at smaller > things, Spin madly!" (nor, "whales! go slow."). It's just a gesture > I'm

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

2019-04-28 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 07:06:03AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > 18.4.2: I chose download updates while installing, and install 3rd party > software. > 19.4: Doesn't have those two options (or, I wasn't paying enough > attention). > Could that affect the difference in install times? Calamares does

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

2019-04-28 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 10:39:22AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > FWIW: The greatest impediment to me using LXQt is the way PCManFM treats > the scroll wheel with more levity (less gravity). It spins faster. I think > it's respecting the "3 lines" default in LXQt-settings->Keyboard & Mouse. > But, I think

Re: [lubuntu-users] Shift-Insert works different in LXQt

2019-04-26 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 08:52:07AM +0200, Liam Proven wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 05:53, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 22:01, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > > > Heh, shift-insert is not popular among ANY users but it's never used by > > &

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

2019-04-26 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "Ordinary people" unlikely will use QEMU. IMO handling "space" used by > emulations is more easily done by taking care about base 2 unites, than > base 10. Well, I think that the IEEE is full of the same non-orindary people the IEC

Re: [lubuntu-users] Shift-Insert works different in LXQt

2019-04-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:04:57AM +0200, Liam Proven wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 22:01, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > Heh, shift-insert is not popular among ANY users but it's never used by > > Windows AFAIK. > Wrong. It's the original standard shortcut. Shift-Del = Cut, Sh

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

2019-04-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-25 00:18, Mark F wrote: > I installed 19.04 a few days ago, it seemed to install > faster than I remember past versions. > I was thinking maybe LXQt isn't as > large (disk space) as LXDE. But, now it comes with LibreOffice. Taking the panel as an example, the LXDE version has an

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

2019-04-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-25 00:03, Mark F wrote: > I still think it > would be beneficial to have some kind of mem display widget installed > on the screen so the terminal's footprint itself isn't a contributing > factor But then the widget would be XD > I created a 6g QEMU image. When I tried to install

Re: [lubuntu-users] Resume from "suspend:" a privacy concern?

2019-04-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-24 17:18, Mark F wrote: > I might suspend the laptop when I go to bed (or shopping). When I > return, pressing the power button is how I wake it up. What do you have in /etc/systemd/logind.conf? > It's not entirely locked. So you don't have to enter the password? -- @wxl |

Re: [lubuntu-users] Shift-Insert works different in LXQt

2019-04-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-24 19:01, Mark F wrote: > Something else I'm noticing: I have the habit of using shift-insert to > paste things. > I'm noticing that Featherpad will change to type-over mode from insert > mode (as if I pressed the insert key to toggle that mode). That's a bug, but one that's fixed in

Re: [lubuntu-users] Resume from "suspend:" a privacy concern?

2019-04-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-24 14:45, Mark F wrote: > When I > press the laptop's power button after it's been suspended This right here seems strange to me. Why would you hit the power button? Are you trying to turn it off? By default (see /etc/systemd/login.conf) it is set to poweroff the machine. So

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.04LXQt Change title bar to a different color?

2019-04-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 10:45:17AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > > > existing Lubuntu partition seemed out of place, and didn't have the sda > > > identifier. Did you finish that install? If so could you pastebin `lsblk`? > 1. The login screen would benefit from a spinning hourglass Agreed. Surprised

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.04LXQt Change title bar to a different color?

2019-04-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 10:26:19AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > I hope that helps! (It appears they were all closed as quickly as they were > opened. But, hopefully being present helps somehow.). They were closed basically because you didn't use the template. Upstreams tend to be pretty darn particular

Re: [lubuntu-users] 19.04LXQt Change title bar to a different color?

2019-04-21 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 07:40:26AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > I use a dark'ish solid color background. 19.04s black bar doesn't work well > for me. I don't see anyway to change it in LXQt. Right click on the taskbar and select "Configure panel" and play around with the options in custom styling. More

Re: [lubuntu-users] Back on topic: Disco D puts "user-home.desktop" file on the desktop??

2019-04-19 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-19 23:43, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 3:29 PM Walter Lapchynski > wrote: >> On 2019-04-18 16:14, Fritz Hudnut wrote: >>> 19.04 . . . a file is created on the desktop >>> File name is "user-home.desktop.SM200Z" >> https:

Re: [lubuntu-users] Back on topic: Disco D puts "user-home.desktop" file on the desktop??

2019-04-19 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-18 16:14, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > 19.04 . . . a file is created on the desktop > File name is "user-home.desktop.SM200Z" I saw this but in testing but it didn't seem to persist and I took it to be some sort of fluke. Because we had bigger fish to fry, I wasn't really obsessing about it.

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 19.04 available on Lubuntu.me (but wrong torrent)

2019-04-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-18 18:38, Mark F wrote: > FYI: Lubuntu.me shows 19.04 available for download. When I click the > torrent to download it, Transmission begins downloading metadata, then > the torrent name changes to 18.10 This should be fixed. Sorry for the trouble! -- @wxl | polka.bike C563

Re: [lubuntu-users] C4C Lubuntu ReSpin18.04.2

2019-04-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-04-17 15:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Would you tolerate > "The Fiat Lux [1] Lubuntu ReSpin has just been updated to 18.04.2"? Yes. > Maybe we should care more about the living Of course, people with beliefs of all kinds are the living, so shouldn't you care about them just the same? Just

Re: [lubuntu-users] C4C Lubuntu ReSpin18.04.2

2019-04-15 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 04:53:47PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 11:09, Ben Johnston wrote: > > Being considerate and respectful are the first two paragraphs of the Ubuntu > > code of conduct. > Does it also say "use plain text, no formatting" and "please > bottom-post on

Re: [lubuntu-users] Is this it for Lubuntu QA Disco QA?

2019-02-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2019-02-04 18:02, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > I can make no > promises to complete any projects within any time frame due date . . . > but, if you wanted to "walk me through it" . . . there might be a > moment or two where I could make some "edits" with the caveat that > "nothing is promised" . . . .

Re: [lubuntu-users] Is this it for Lubuntu QA Disco QA?

2019-02-03 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:10:19AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/series/67/testsuites > Looking over the various "Ubuntu" options shows options for "manual > partition" and "re-using old home folder" but in the Lubuntu Disco suite it > looks like only two?? Is

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 05:49:41PM -0700, Mark F wrote: > I've always felt like it has something to do with mouse clicks not being > handled well (clicking too fast). But, that could just be my imagination, > looking for a simple reason. Well there's only one way to find out. If it's a matter of

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:50:10AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > Ever since I upgraded to LTS 18.04, PCmanfm crashes every 3-4 days > (sometimes more than once a day. Sometimes it takes two weeks.).[1] I have not had the experience you have had, nor have many others, but there are some people reporting

Re: [lubuntu-users] 32 bit on 64? (was: Activating a swap partition)

2018-11-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 07:29:38PM +, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > BTW, I am running 32-bit lubuntu on a 64-bit system (Toshiba NB250-107 > Netbook), due to lack of memory (only 1GiB). I'm confused here because a 64 bit kernel should be able to handle a small amount of RAM as much as a 32 bit. A 64

Re: [lubuntu-users] LUBUNTU 16.xx, 17.xx, 18.xx, VERY SLOW BOOT...! Damaged Product=

2018-11-20 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2018-11-12 07:38, Kopi Tv wrote: > IF ANDROID …which is Linux. > CAN BE USED ON DESKTOP / LAPTOP LIKE UBUNTU, Well, it probably won't be. I mean, who wants to use mobile apps on desktop? One of the most exciting things I've seen on this front is DeX from Samsung. It allows you to basically

Re: [lubuntu-users] how to update 14.04 to 16.04 Lubuntu?

2018-11-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 05:37:32PM -0500, Gary Knott wrote: > it is really not nice to have such basic things be so obscure Probably not, but we're close to what others do. If you drag and drop on the desktop in Kubuntu/KDE, it won't create a .desktop file for you (and that *IS* what needs to be

Re: [lubuntu-users] LUBUNTU 16.xx, 17.xx, 18.xx, VERY SLOW BOOT...! Damaged Product=

2018-11-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Again, adding the list. Please reply all. On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 05:48:54PM +0700, Kopi Tv wrote: > Lubuntu users don't need many things, *just 2 things* = I think this is a gross simplification that is more appropriately described as the 2 things *YOU* want. > 1. Boot Fast Then follow the

Re: [lubuntu-users] LUBUNTU 16.xx, 17.xx, 18.xx, VERY SLOW BOOT...! Damaged Product=

2018-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Since you made this post to the mailing list, I'm including it back in it. Please reply all so we can all be involved in the conversation. > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 11:35 AM Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:26:31PM +0700, Kopi Tv wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 0

Re: [lubuntu-users] how to update 14.04 to 16.04 Lubuntu?

2018-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 05:16:22PM -0500, Gary Knott wrote: > PS, As long as I'm asking questions about Lubuntu, > Can anyone tell me how to get an icon on my LXDE desktop that > "points" to a binary excutable file I have (called mlab). You're going to need to make a [desktop file][1]. You can

Re: [lubuntu-users] how to update 14.04 to 16.04 Lubuntu?

2018-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 06:08:03PM -0500, Gary Knott wrote: > Traditionally, Debian releases have been upgradeable by changing Apt's > /etc/apt/sources.list, which specifies package repositories, and using apt-get > dist-upgrade to perform the upgrade itself. Just one small note: without actually

Re: [lubuntu-users] how to update 14.04 to 16.04 Lubuntu?

2018-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 09:12:41AM -0700, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 11/9/18 10:45 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:23:27AM -0500, Gary Knott wrote: > > > I don't get any offer from the update manager to update to 16.04 > > > (i used to, bu

Re: [lubuntu-users] how to update 14.04 to 16.04 Lubuntu?

2018-11-09 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:23:27AM -0500, Gary Knott wrote: > I don't get any offer from the update manager to update to 16.04 > (i used to, but not now) How do I update to Lubuntu > 16.04? (not do an overwrite install, but do an update.) Why not 18.04? -- @wxl | polka.bike C563 CAC5

Re: [lubuntu-users] [lubuntu-devel] Lubuntu 18.10 != Broadcom wifi

2018-11-08 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 09:45:01PM -0500, Kevin Carter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:03 PM Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > On 2018-10-30 08:19, Kevin Carter wrote: > > > enabling the Broadcom network device is problematic. > > Proprietary drivers are always a pr

Re: [lubuntu-users] LUBUNTU 16.xx, 17.xx, 18.xx, VERY SLOW BOOT...! Damaged Product=

2018-11-08 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:26:31PM +0700, Kopi Tv wrote: > LUBUNTU 16.xx, 17.xx, 18.xx, VERY SLOW BOOT...! = Compared to? > why doesn't LUBUNTU 16, 17, 18, come "out of the box" > don't follow Serial Ubuntu ...! I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Lubuntu is, at its core, Ubuntu.

Re: [lubuntu-users] pcmanfm-qt in 18.10

2018-10-31 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2018-10-30 11:13, James wrote: > If I "preserve settings for this folder", is there a way to make that > the default for subfolders? There's no current way to apply this to a tree/subfolders. > Is there a way to get a global default? Yes. Actually, it's rather confusing. The default view

Re: [lubuntu-users] number of desktops in 18.10

2018-10-31 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2018-10-31 13:37, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 18:10, James wrote: >> The number of desktops defaults to 4. >> How do I change the number? > Install gnome-tweaks. Run it, go to "Workspaces" and take it from > there :) If you like needlessly installing extra things that are

Re: [lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 18.10, no touchpad settings

2018-10-31 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2018-10-28 17:05, Israel wrote: > On 10/28/18 10:11 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: > I did some searching, and it is extremely hard to find out > where/what the synaptics API actually is This is really unnecessary if you use synaptics command line tools like syndaemon and synclient. I've

Re: [lubuntu-users] [lubuntu-devel] lubuntu 32-bit 18.10

2018-10-22 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2018-10-22 03:35, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > How do I go about filing a bug against calamares? Same way you file bugs against anything else: `ubuntu-bug `**package_name** So in this case, `ubuntu-bug calamares`. More information on reporting bugs in general can be found on [our wiki][1]. [1]:

Re: [lubuntu-users] [lubuntu-devel] Lubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) Released!

2018-10-22 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On 2018-10-22 10:52, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 10/21/18 10:13 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >>>> On 10/20/18 2:13 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: >>>>> 3. On past levels of Lubuntu, Thunderbird Mail was the e-mail >>>>> client. >> Nope, it was always Sylp

Re: [lubuntu-users] Back to Kindergarten

2018-10-22 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:33:53AM +, Chris Schram wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 06:47:50AM +, Chris Schram wrote: > >> inscrutable names under System Tools and Preferences I know that in previous versions we simplified the language by using functional names rather than the names of

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